HiSilicon Kirin 970 vs HiSilicon Kirin 659

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 970 vs. 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 659 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 970 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.3318 TFLOPS vs 0.0576 TFLOPS )

More modern manufacturing process (10nm vs 16nm)

Released 8 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 970 +242%

355946

HiSilicon Kirin 659

103952

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 970 +79%

386

HiSilicon Kirin 659

215

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 970 +70%

1377

HiSilicon Kirin 659

810

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 970 +480%

331

HiSilicon Kirin 659

57

HiSilicon Kirin 970

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 659

CPU

4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex A73
4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex A53

Architecture

4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 1.7 GHz – Cortex-A53

2360 MHz

Frequency

2360 MHz

8

Cores

8

2 MB

L2 cache

-

0

L3 cache

-

10 nm

Process

16 nm

5.5

Transistor count

4

9 W

TDP

-

TSMC

Manufacturing

-

Graphics

Mali-G72 MP12

GPU name

Mali-T830 MP2

768 MHz

GPU frequency

900 MHz

12

Execution units

2

18

Shading units

16

8

Max size

4

0.3318 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.0576 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.0

2.0

OpenCL version

1.2

12

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR3

1866 MHz

Memory frequency

933 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 32 Bit

29.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

-

AI

Yes

NPU

No

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

No

UFS 2.1

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

3120 x 1440

Max display resolution

1920 x 1200

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

Max camera resolution

1x 16MP, 2x 8MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

1K at 60FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

1080p at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, VC-1

Video codecs

H.264, H.265

32 bit@384 kHz, HD-audio

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 7

No

5G support

No

Up to 1200 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 300 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 50 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

4

4.2

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Info

Sep 2017

Announced

Jan 2017

Flagship

Class

Mid range

Hi3670

Model number

Hi6250

HiSilicon Kirin 970

Official page

-

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